A Quote by William Mulholland

I envy the dead.

William Mulholland

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William Mulholland
Irish - Scientist
September 11, 1855 - July 22, 1935

Envy, envy eats them alive. If you had money, they’d envy you that. But since you don’t, they envy you for having such a good, bright, loving daughter. They envy you for just being a happy man. They envy you for not envying them. One of the greatest sorrows of human existence is that some people aren’t happy merely to be alive but find their happiness only in the misery of others.

Dean Koontz

Envy is the most universal passion. We only pride ourselves on the qualities we possess, or think we possess; but we envy the pretensions we have, and those which we have not, and do not even wish for. We envy the greatest qualities and every trifling advantage. We envy the most ridiculous appearance or affectation of superiority. We envy folly and conceit; nay, we go so far as to envy whatever confers distinction of notoriety, even vice and infamy.

William Hazlitt

I'm not a completely envy-free zone - I envy 25-year-old men with magnificent bodies - but when I look at my colleagues on the whole, I don't think I have much to envy!

David Starkey

Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead.

Mark Twain

The living will envy the dead.

Nikita Khrushchev

I envy Jesus because he's dead.

T. C. Boyle

Envy feeds on the living. It ceases when they are dead.

Ovid

What is envy? It is nothing but passive jealousy. Maybe jealousy is too strong a phenomenon; envy is a little passive. The difference may be of degrees, but it is not of quality, it is only of quantity. Envy can become jealousy at any moment; envy is just jealousy in progress. Mind has to drop all envies and jealousies.

Rajneesh

Expect not praise without envy until you are dead.

Charles Caleb Colton

The survivors (of a nuclear war) would envy the dead.

Nikita Khrushchev

Envy honors the dead in order to insult the living.

Claude Adrien Helvetius

Emulation embalms the dead; envy, the vampire, blasts the living.

Henry Fuseli

The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.

Thomas Hobbes

Love rejoices in good wherever it finds it; envy is pained by good, and the sight of the happiness of others hurts the eyes and the heart of the envious man. Love wishes to give; envy would rather receive. Love creates; envy destroys. Love builds up; envy pulls down. Love helps those in need, comforts the afflicted, and strives to turn all that is evil into good; envy would turn the little happiness to be found in this world into evil, sorrow, and pain.

Lawrence G. Lovasik

Moloch merely shovels babies into the fire of productive capitalism. Mammon hooks them on the dead heroin of envy.

Hakim Bey

For all the unkind things said about envy, it would only be fair to acknowledge that not all envy is destructive. If envy leads us to work hard and to improve our skills, it becomes a stimulant to self-improvement. God has given us no quality that cannot be used for good.

Sidney Greenberg

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